What is the better choice, building routes to your advantage or blocking routes to limit your opponents options? There are many different paths towards victory which encourages replayability. The game encourages players to develop strategies and forces them to make constant tactical decisions. This adds some hidden point structure that can alter a player’s ranking at the very end.Įven though Ticket to Ride is a game that can be learned and taught easily, it also has a lot of hidden depth. At the end of the game, players receive bonus points for each card they were able to link up, but they loose points if they couldn’t. To add a little more depth, each player also receives another set of cards listing pairs of cities. The player with the most points is declared the winner after one final round. The game ends when at least one player has two or less train tokens left. The longer the route is that they claim, the more points they get. They then immediately receive points for that action. If they choose the latter, they trade in a set of cards of the same colour as the track and place their train tokens on that route. Most turns a player can take one of two actions: They can either add cards to their hand from the card supply, or they can claim a route between two cities on the board. It even features Winnipeg as one of its destination cities – Something that I am strangely proud of! In addition, it features a large deck of cards that depict train cars in different colours as well as a supply for mini plastic trains for each player in their colour. It is played on a large and colourfully illustrated map of the United States and southern Canada. The game casts payers as railroad developers, crossing North America in the age of steam. One of the reasons for its success is that it is deceptively simple. It is one of the most popular modern board games in the world, an honour that can only be shared with other mammoth titles like Catan or Carcassone. Since its inception it has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide and has received dozens of international awards, including the much coveted ‘Spiel des Jahres’ in Germany.
Ticket to Ride was created by the American designer Alan R.Moon and was first published in 2004 by the game publisher Days of Wonder. There is no doubt in my mind that the game Ticket to Ride is one of them. These are the games that have staying power and that are loved not only by thousands, but by millions of people around the world. It is its theme, the accessibility and elegance of the rules, the design and production of the components, the depth of strategy, or the level of enjoyment one experiences when playing it? I believe it is a combination of all of these factors, and very few games are able to fulfill all of these points satisfactorily.īut there are exceptions.
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